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SINGAPORE – A man was charged on Saturday (August 29) with murdering his wife.
Appearing before a district court by video conference, 24-year-old Chinese citizen Cui Huan was charged with killing 26-year-old Ms Liang Xueqiu, who was found on the empty deck of Block 211 Boon Lay Place on Thursday. .
Cui showed no emotion when the charges were read to him.
Police had previously said they received a call for assistance around 6.30pm Thursday. The officers who arrived at the scene found a woman injured and immobile.
She was unconscious when she was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 9.58pm.
Officers from the Jurong Criminal Investigation Department and Police Division arrested the man within three hours of the reported incident.
Some Boon Lay block residents The Straits Times spoke to Friday night said they saw police cordon off the crime scene Thursday night.
A resident said he had rushed out of his home to try to help the victim after his younger brother told him the woman was lying motionless on the empty deck.
Mohamed Nasrullah, 20, a student and part-time deliveryman, said that when he arrived at the scene, there were about 10 passersby.
He decided to call the police for help and they arrived about 10 minutes later. Another resident called the Singapore Civil Defense Force.
“Passersby were standing by without calling the police, so I decided … to make the call,” Nasrullah said.
He had not seen the victim around the neighborhood before and was shocked when told that he had died.
Cui has been sent to preventive detention and his case postponed until September 4.
Those convicted of murder face the death penalty or life imprisonment with flogging.
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